This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 26 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1906
Page
2
An editorial reflection on the Republican party origins and aims, praising national unity and Congress for substantial legislation. It notes a hopeful public mood despite earlier fears of Civil War and commends Congress for its constructive, common sense approach and major measures brought forward dramatically.
A reflection on the beginnings and aims of the Republican party, its fight against sectionalism, the Union’s preservation, and key laws shaping national development. It highlights national unity, the abolition of slavery, and the party’s early achievements like homestead law and transcontinental railroads, as seen in a Chicago Outer Ocean summary.
A fragmentary report lists major targets including life insurers Standard Oil the paper trust railroads drug trust meat packers and dishonest bankers as critics warn of a coming public uproar over antitrust scrutiny and reforms.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer argues Democrats counting on tariff fault lines will be disappointed. It recalls farmers draining a pond to trap trees, only to find the stock halved, likening noisy tariff criticism to empty hopes that do not affect Republican unity.
A clipped political note praises memory of free-trade reformers and tariff talk. It suggests Democratic free-traders and Republicans who advocate reciprocity should sing a wartime hymn and reflects on Wilson tariff plans from 1903 to 1997, noting potential voter sentiment.
The piece argues farm labor shortages and poor pay drive skilled workers away while farm hands gripe at long hours. It urges higher wages only if paired with skilled management and individual employer fairness. Mutual confidence between farmer and worker is key to attracting and keeping good labor.
The text explains plank frame construction as a timber saving and faster building method. It notes bracing provides strength against wind and air pressure, allows either solid foundation or plank-only structures, and suggests a well built stove and cement foundation for stability.
The text details raising a barn frame without sills, using upright studs as posts. Two posts on the foundation form the frame, linked by cross planks spiked to span the width. Center posts rise from floor scantlings, with parallel outside planks to create three 2x8 cross sills. Uprights are fixed and secured by cross planks and dense spike nails to prevent movement.
Soils form from disintegrated rocks and organic matter. Organic content ranges from 1 to over 70 percent, with higher amounts found mainly in bogs or peat beds, shaping the soil's characteristics.
The article notes that wheat lands hold 4 to 6 percent organic matter while oats and rye tolerate 1 to 2 percent. It urges farmers to determine soil deficiencies and fill them, stressing barnyard manure as a safe corrective.
No farmer can afford to do without a good garden. Every family should cultivate staple vegetables early and efficiently. A well kept garden boosts health and profit, with space for strawberries raspberries blackberries currants grapes and dwarf pears at low cost.
Mr John Spears of British Columbia sends to the Montreal Star a contrivance for weighing live lambs. The device uses an ordinary wheat sack with two stubble sticks and a rope sling to secure the lambs. the method aims to prevent wriggling, avoid cuts, and provide a quick humane weighing.
Farmers know crop bound in fowls when the crop fills with grain and cannot pass to the gizzard. Treatment includes withholding grain, manual indipation to loosen the mass, or in severe cases opening the crop to remove the contents and sewing it closed. Aftercare requires light foods like milk for several days.
A Maryland grower finds a method to revive aging fruit trees by heading the tree to reduce sap travel, trimming top growth, and applying bone-dust in autumn and ashes in spring. This aids bud formation and stimulates renewed growth, keeping trees bearing longer than their perceived lifespan.
A California report highlights a new vacuum method to preserve perishable fruits and foods. It claims fresh fruit can stay perfectly fresh for three months and decay warded off, potentially transforming fruit and vegetable transport from California.
An Iowa inventor rejects boiling with a plain pole and unveils a scissor like pair of forceps. The two hollowed spoon ends grip hot clothes while a spring between handles aids operation. The device aims to safely bandy garments and reduce weight, with plans to manufacture in aluminum.
A practical guide to preserving apples and wild crabapples with a vinegar sugar syrup, spices, and jar packing. It notes gathering timing, heating in batches, and sealing, plus a companion recipe for an almond flavored crumb cake using apricot jam and butter mixture.
Heat a pint of cream with a pound of sugar until sugar dissolves. Cool briefly then add another pint of cream. Mash a quart and a half of ripe strawberries with three quarters of a pound of sugar, let stand an hour, strain juice, pour into the cream, mix, then freeze.
Rub two ounces of butter into five ounces four five ounces powdered lump sugar, beat an egg with half the sugar, then mix with the other ingredients. Add one ounce blanched almonds and a little almond flavor, form into nutmeg sized pieces, dust with fine sugar and lightly bake.
A collection of everyday tips on selecting apples and preserving foods, cleaning fabrics, bleaching with ammonia, whitening with white cloths, and cleaning duties. Tips include pressing apples for best texture, using bread to keep cakes moist, sugar for turnips, cat lemon for meat tenderness, broom and hot water for clothes, ammonia in stove blacking and laundry water, salt water for carpets, corn meal for wool, raw potato for stains, kerosene for windows and brass shine.
Practical tips cover fabric care ashing clothes in sun after use and drying. A method for handling fruit pie juice uses a paper funnel in the crust. Cleaning bottles uses a diced potato in cold water. Boiling eggs in rapid water prevents dark yolk edges. For gravy add melted brown sugar and hot water. Grease a griddle with half a white turnip for smokeless cooking.
For nearly a generation the public has known Dr. Williams' Pink Pills with proven cures and no harmful drugs. Miss Charlotte Van Salisbury describes neuralgia, heart palpitations, dizziness, and fainting, then credits eight boxes with full recovery. Her sister Sarah improves from anemia after using the pills. both recommend them. Pills sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady, N.Y., 50 cents a box, six for $2.50, descriptive pamphlets free.
A brief dialogue shows a father noting his son's twenty-first birthday as the family record records a major birthday, while the son quips that reaching majority does not mean work, claiming a working majority is not his.
$2.00 to Cleveland and return Sunday July 6th. Special train leaves Fort Wayne at 6 36 A M and returns Cleveland 7 00 P M same day. Tickets good returning July 6th. See greatest amusement parks between New York and Chicago. Full information from agent C A Melin Ft Wayne Ind.
The Wall Street Journal laments tipping as a national evil expanding from waiters to service workers and even to lawmaking, police, railroad officials, and business roles. It argues legislators should pass laws to curb tips and stop the practice from the top down.
An Indiana patient credits a prominent local physician with curing a twenty year stomach disease by diet and quitting coffee. The doctor advised Postum as a coffee substitute, claiming it relieved the issue and improved health. The testimonial promotes Postum by Battle Creek Cereal Co and recommends a ten day trial.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.